Easy & Realistic Faux Stone Walls with Foam!

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2 жыл бұрын

If you've ever needed to recreate the look of stone for a facade or maybe even a fireplace surround, you'll want to check out this video. I'll show you how to get the look of stone with minimal tools and some craft paint.
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@ncgatorlady 2 жыл бұрын

I work for a local haunted attraction making props, sets and costumes. I love your videos because they give me the specific “how to’s” for so many of the projects I do. Please keep the videos coming!

@603VIL 2 жыл бұрын

I agree. Huge help and time saver. I'd be lost without these videos. You do wonders for the community. Great appreciation man!

@jrikkerink 26 күн бұрын

I also work for an organization that organizes Halloween events, including a horror maze in a large cornfield with various haunted houses. To be honest, I often use your tutorials (including this one) as a guide because they are clearly, effectively, and transparently explained. It's also great that you share the mistakes with us, as these are the exact points everyone encounters during the making process but are rarely mentioned in KZfaq tutorials. Thank you very much for the inspiration and detailed explanations!

@viniciuslima9430 7 ай бұрын

I have respect when people add their mistakes in crafting. The best/most frustrating part of craft is learning from mistakes.

@TheGhostchaser8 Жыл бұрын

I worked in Hollywood back in the 1980’s for a few years as a scenic artist. One of my projects was a commercial with the Smothers Brothers for Magnavox. I had to creat three walls that looked like flagstone. Used this exact same technique. When I saw the commercial on tv, I was completely blown away by the realism. These techniques are pure gold.

@HLR4th 2 жыл бұрын

Forgive me, but I can not resist... You Rock!

@kmarch6630 2 жыл бұрын

Groan....🤣🤣

@VanOaksProps 2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@janetcastellano4141 Жыл бұрын

Your work is above average,even up close it looks like true cement and bricks. Awesome it inspired me to try it out. Thank you for sharing.

@VanOaksProps Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

@Foxxy999 2 жыл бұрын

I worked at Walt Disney World and got to see their scenic guys add character paint to a crypt at the exit of the Haunted Mansion in 2007. They mixed drylok with green paint to added it in little piles to create mossy details, which I thought was brilliant.

@VanOaksProps 2 жыл бұрын

Good to know!

@midnitepagan9118 Жыл бұрын

Thats pretty cool but a pro tip . When you lay stone, vertical joints should never line up as it creates a weak point in a stone wall. I know it foam, but still for a bit more realism. Never stack vertical joints.

@deborahquidort134 2 жыл бұрын

Love your technique...so realistic. You do a fantastic job with your videos. I am always amazed! I stopped buying props years ago as you just can’t get a quality look. It’s much more fun to create my own creations, and they look so much better thanks to you and others who post “how to” videos like this. Your work is greatly appreciated!!!

@PowerChordEPS 2 жыл бұрын

I ended up doing something like this for my haunt this year but on a larger scale. My facade was a cavern-like temple entrance and I used many of the same methods here when it came to carving my stones, again on a larger scale to look like they're larger rocks. Only differences were I used a router bit to carve my grout lines so they look like stacked rocks and used a heat gun instead of a torch for the weathering. I also Gorilla glued and screwed some leftover 2x4 scraps from when I rebuilt part of my deck in the bottom for security. Overall it worked out great and I got tons of compliments and the almighty feel test

@lawrencewilhelm7095 2 жыл бұрын

I used a metal brush wheel that was a bit beat up with a hand held electric drill to carve the grout lines. It makes a more irregular, realistic line. Scary Larry

@edtsch 2 жыл бұрын

You do great work, man. Thanks for sharing your techniques with us!

@Rachel-hg1gn 2 жыл бұрын

Found your video while looking for inspiration to make a tomb for our VBS at church. Thank you for posting! :)

@therebelworkshop 2 жыл бұрын

That turned out great.

@HollywoodHaunter 2 жыл бұрын

Rock on man! 🤘

@Justrex01 Жыл бұрын

I could very easily see myself making some of this when I can't think of anything fun to build and eventually covering at least one whole wall of my shop. As you can guess, I get bored easily. Thanks for the inspiration!

@jimar7796 2 жыл бұрын

Nice presentation…the guy is fantastic in making these DIY videos

@VanOaksProps 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

@eddieblanquiz2542 11 ай бұрын

This is just what I needed! Thank you!!! Your channel rules!

@Pippi-Longstocking 8 ай бұрын

I’ve noticed that washes are a big thing. I use them and love them. My favourite technique is the wash and wipe! More paint, less water in your wash. Paint over everything then wipe away to top/raised surfaces. Looks great too.

@JustQuixa 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic! Great video, information, and thanks for showing the parts you were'nt thrilled about. Sometimes creators can forget that what not to do can be just important as what to do! 🙂

@carvsh 2 жыл бұрын

Oooo that dry brushing of white 👍🏼! It just came alive in front of my eyes

@VanOaksProps 2 жыл бұрын

Isn't that great?! It's always a surprise.

@lindawhite3238 2 жыл бұрын

OMG..you certainly have more patience than I would in making this project. I have a 6' section that I want to do something like this in but will be looking at other ways.....hopefully. Thanx for your videos and tips and tricks

@dafydd2277 2 жыл бұрын

I think the effect from the larger brush would have been fine if you were looking for a sandstone appearance, instead of the grey/igneous stone appearance you were going for. Larger sandstone blocks would wear and dish out in the middle just like we see in the foam.

@billg3356 Жыл бұрын

Looks awesome, man!

@trytofinishsomething 2 жыл бұрын

This was great as always!

@Melissa-xe6er 2 жыл бұрын

Love this. It looks great! I greatly appreciate how you clearly explain what you are doing as you are doing it. I've learned so much from your videos. Thank you!

@VanOaksProps 2 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!

@daleanscomb365 2 жыл бұрын

Looks really cool. I've done smaller versions using ceilling tiles. Will have to try using foam.

@jasonbeavers9337 2 жыл бұрын

Looks amazing, I’m going to make some more cemetery pillars for next Halloween and I’ll use this video for references 👍🏻 thanks

@timapiepgrass8702 Жыл бұрын

Looks like a great background for a small reptile enclosure!

@Yelwas 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing, you are a cleaver chap. I keep coming back 😃

@thebeardedchad Жыл бұрын

I think this would look really cool as the accent wall behind a bar in a basement or something. It will have the look of stone without negating any insulation factors and will also act as a sound dampener.

@hindugoat2302 Жыл бұрын

highly flammable and puts out toxic fumes when burning... violates fire codes.

@premramsita8354 Жыл бұрын

You are an amazing craftsman. I am so inspired.

@wandafelder9951 Жыл бұрын

I will be doing this on my living room wall…..your work is phenomenal and your handsome too😍😊Thank you

@debbieswaner3289 2 жыл бұрын

Love this!!

@XroorX 4 ай бұрын

I buy an actual course of flat stone to use as a stencil. I also do 4x8 sheets at a time, and covered the side of my house. Everything else I copy from you with the paint-especially the white paint on the surface! I then plant a climbing vine to obscure the faux wall to add more realism

@VanOaksProps 4 ай бұрын

That sounds awesome!

@XroorX 4 ай бұрын

@@VanOaksProps thanks! I started with 3/4” styrofoam “courses” titebonded onto plywood, then draped with landscape fabric then more titebond. As long as you put something “real” (plants, real rocks 😂) the uncanny valley in all humans won’t fixate and then ruminate if it’s real! I buy a box of Airstone now to get stencils and use a Dre Mel straight into the foam. I’m building turrets to bookend my iron gate at my driveway now! Hahaha

@asmarteru 2 жыл бұрын

Nice. So many ways to make these stone panels. I will be making some but using a grinding wheel for texture on the surface ... if all goes well.

@meryjimenezuwu7949 2 жыл бұрын

😱Thank you for your time and sharing your talent.

@VanOaksProps 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@damentesch Жыл бұрын

That looks great!

@AphroditeLee Жыл бұрын

DEFINITELY helpful! Thank you!!!!!!!!!

@MaryOKC Жыл бұрын

I am so impressed!

@codyreynolds6333 10 ай бұрын

From doing dioramas and scale modeling wrinkled up tin foil ball for texture is the best way for random stone textures

@alexlopez8922 Жыл бұрын

Definitely for Halloween this would look awesome 🤩, thank you

@conraddickinson24 8 ай бұрын

I've built two cemetery pillars and I plan on using this technique to paint both of them.

@tiffanytrippeer5401 2 жыл бұрын

Actually I think the larger brush did a pretty good job. Maybe not the exact look you yourself was trying to achieve, but I thought it looks good, great video by the way and thanks for sharing ☺️👍🏻

@bretfox4532 2 жыл бұрын

I wish I found your videos sooner this year, I've got work to do for next year. Keep up the good work.

@VanOaksProps 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, you too!

@InsidetheBoothTV 2 жыл бұрын

Love this great job

@cindycoleman5196 4 күн бұрын

Wish I knew this technique when I had to do faux stone for the Atlanta Passion Play. Great job. Would love to do something like this for out doors. Thanks for posting.

@VanOaksProps 4 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@DogoArgentinoUSA Жыл бұрын

Awesome 😎

@mister_scott 2 жыл бұрын

Another great choice of topic/technique on its own, and how useful this can be when making other (haunt) projects including tombstones, natural rock work and more. I enjoyed your particular color usage in your example, versus a typical monotone approach. Also helpful in your example is how scalable the technique can be. As you noted, the gaps between stones could have been narrower and deeper to create different shadow and texture effects, but can also be carved wider and/or shallower if one were carving large stone areas. All that can be achieved from a variety of tools as well, from wire brushes to fine Dremel tools. So many lessons and techniques to learn and apply to a variety of projects for makers. Keep up the great work!

@VanOaksProps 2 жыл бұрын

Exactly!

@mikeyedmund Жыл бұрын

Great work loves it. Thanks

@pixelmator 2 жыл бұрын

I enjoy watching all of your videos, they make my day. I'm going to go build something...

@VanOaksProps 2 жыл бұрын

Awe, thanks!

@andresrodriguezrullan8609 Жыл бұрын

Lovely, building a Hagrid's shack to cover my well pump, was going to use stucco but I might use this method and also add some forced perspective to it.

@oldsmerchik Жыл бұрын

Excellent result! I like.

@ChrisKluepfel 11 күн бұрын

Wow! Learned a lot and it looks stunning!

@VanOaksProps 11 күн бұрын

I'm so glad!

@EnricoBressi Жыл бұрын

Looks great.

@nancyhagan2520 2 жыл бұрын

I just found your videos this year and am new to doing Halloween at my home for young and old. Very informative and creative please keep them coming.

@VanOaksProps 2 жыл бұрын

Welcome!!

@brbailey Жыл бұрын

“That’s not how I do it.” Love it!

@valarieannaliza8805 3 ай бұрын

This is great!!!!

@marcathens2951 Жыл бұрын

Excellent job 👏 👍🏽

@judichristopher4604 Жыл бұрын

EXCELLENT Video... Thank you for sharing this

@VanOaksProps Жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

@andyt1313 Жыл бұрын

Amazing looking! Man, AAXA must be giving these projectors out like candy. Lots of the Halloween DIYers I follow are demonstrating this specific brand and model.

@golemannab9806 Жыл бұрын

You inspire me well thanks.

@Oilerrocker Жыл бұрын

That’s impressive! Well done👏👏👏

@VanOaksProps Жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😃

@rhonda6082 Жыл бұрын

Love this! I just subscribed❤Thinking of doing this on a wood fake fireplace mantle that I have electric heater in with fake glowing flames in my rustic bedroom.Thank you for the ideas.

@jasperjanderson 2 жыл бұрын

Looks great!

@VanOaksProps 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jasper!

@ryanbeichner5264 2 жыл бұрын

Great video as always. Enjoy your how to. Keep up great work

@VanOaksProps 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ryan!

@NervousNecromancer 2 жыл бұрын

Perfect. I was looking for something to make a mausaleum wall with. This is perfect

@VanOaksProps 2 жыл бұрын

Nice!

@lawrencewilhelm7095 2 жыл бұрын

I was the manager for a 30 acre Halloween park for 19 years. The owners had me rebuild it new every year. My sets were massive enough to fully enclose our 65' long hayrides. While I had built some modular walls using foam for detailed relief, over time I found this unnecessary & too time consuming for very large projects. Also, once you're seeing it under the typical dim and/or colored lighting conditions, the detail is all lost. This is how I did it. On a sheet of whatever sheathing you're using, roll the wall with your base color. This can be a medium grey, brown, green, whatever. Then you paint in the grout lines with a fairly dark grey. Next, shade the blocks by painting a black line along the bottoms & 1 side of every block, always using the same side (left or right). Then do the same with white along the top & the remaining sides. Lastly, dry-brush stipple randomly across the whole wall with each color & you're done. It isn't museum quality but it gets the job done. Last comment, while creating 'drips' is all fine, this gets totaly lost for the most part unless you do the wash much, much darker. Extreme contrast not subtle realism is the key. - Scary Larry

@VanOaksProps 2 жыл бұрын

Great suggestions. I think there's a lot of different ways to create similar effects and it varies based on time/money/manpower/how close people will get to it.

@RikkiTikkiTavo 2 жыл бұрын

Been wanting to make stone walls for my display and had been wondering how to go about doing it, I think this is the type of direction I’m gonna go in

@glenyswana1128 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent

@hollysuchey6037 6 ай бұрын

Awesome job!

@VanOaksProps 6 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@mudbath541 Жыл бұрын

loved it. great

@rebeccagable9629 2 жыл бұрын

Very cool!!

@BeeeHonest Жыл бұрын

Brilliant!

@PixPete 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for another great vid! I had intended on creating several walls like this for my display this year but ran out of time (don't we all?). So what I did instead was buy a load of 3D textured stone effect wallpaper (I believe they call it blown vinyl??) and stuck it on my flats. It comes in white so just needed a wash down with some gunky black, blown, green paints. Whole wall was done in 2 hours and looked pretty good under haunt lighting :)

@VanOaksProps 2 жыл бұрын

Great problem solving and solution!

@lucegene5223 4 ай бұрын

Super helpful. Great outcome. Thank you.

@VanOaksProps 4 ай бұрын

My pleasure. Thanks for watching

@AFV85 Жыл бұрын

Addi g tile grout in the gaps works amazingly! That's the way us modelers do it for dioramas ove xps or poundshop dry wall filler that's actually the best

@winzenriethgilbert5273 2 ай бұрын

Like the way you explain how to do.

@LordHog 2 жыл бұрын

Great tutorial as always, sir. Bookmarked for next Halloween. Packing away this year's Halloween and starting to put up my Xmas xlights display

@rawalz1 2 жыл бұрын

Finally someone who thinks about these type of things besides me. Great video thanks for sharing

@VanOaksProps 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@LizzieWestBathandBody 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome Sauce! ❤️

@VanOaksProps 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you 😋

@kinggapcreatives 2 ай бұрын

Oh, wow! That looks amazing! I found your video when looking up how to paint faux stone over blocks, but I can think of lots of things I might use your technique for, such as props for VBS or at project at the elementary school where I work.

@VanOaksProps 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@chezg806 2 жыл бұрын

Nice work! I think the larger brush added some decent texture to your wall. The end product is amazing!

@ToniM10 Жыл бұрын

I love Ur voice!!.. So soothing... U should Voice over for Disney!!... Perfect Storeyteller!!.. Thnx for Faux Stone Techniques too!!... Lol ✌️❤️😎👍

@robertovelarde_staff-marti9696 Жыл бұрын

You have a good narrator voice. You sound like a Bloodborne Pathogen video I have to listen to year after year. Doesn't sound like a compliment but there are other avenues you could take.

@femalewarrior125 21 күн бұрын

I think that was Really Good 👍

@SergiuszSwitalski Жыл бұрын

despite your comment about the big brush I think it turned out great!

@androidfarmer8863 Жыл бұрын

Would love to see how to do this if you have to match up panels together to cover a much larger surface, without having to work with the foam, already mounted in place.

@erictanneux2956 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent 👌

@driveramd12 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing!

@VanOaksProps 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@SwissFrogGuy 3 ай бұрын

Good stuff. This technique could probably be applied to terrariums as well!

@edsonluisdeoliveira6914 6 ай бұрын

TOP JOB

@jackiemiiers9845 Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@catherineforbes9001 5 ай бұрын

This is amazing! How would one protect it if it’s for an outdoor application. Thank you so much!

@VanOaksProps 5 ай бұрын

It's not really designed for long term outdoor use, but you could coat it with water sealer and that should help to extend the life of it. But again, it's more for temporary or interior use.

@barbarascura7288 2 жыл бұрын

WOW!!!

@peterbathum2775 Жыл бұрын

if you have carved it so you can get cheese cloth into the cracks, painting down a complete layer of cheese cloth over the entire surface of the foam front and back, using latex house paint, will make it extremely durable. I've always done a rough scumble of 3 tones as the base paint ...

@VanOaksProps Жыл бұрын

Good to know!